Definitely. If you like manga at all try reading the Liar Game (or watch the Japanese drama, which is almost as good). It's about people in a twisted game who realize that the real enemy are the ones running the game, not the other contestants.

I always look at it like this. There can only be one. For there to be a winner there must be a loser, and this applies to all things. For there to be those who are strong there must also be those who are weak to compare them against. The winner and the loser need each other in a way that if either stopped existing, so would the other.

Think about it. If there were no ugly people in the world there would be no beautiful people. No good without bad. If there was no history of world hunger, or suffering, or death or oppression or unhappiness and we lived in this perfect Garden of Eden of a world, having never experienced any of the above, we wouldn't actually be happy. How could we be happy with out ever knowing sadness or pain? Remembering how terrible life can be sometimes makes the best moments it has for us so much sweeter.

And in the case of the super bowl, the Ravens won because they were all around the best team. They didn't crack under pressure, they ran the fastest and were the stronger then the 49er's. Every hour of practice and struggle they put in to be the best, all those buckets of blood and sweat they persevered through to be the best was worth it. If you want to be the best you have to put in the most effort.

As a male, I can sometimes be close to tears when something sad happens in a movie or whatever - but it has to be pretty upsetting. At other times, I can't relate to others' pain at all for some reason.

i could sound like an extreme brute justifying horrible actions others find ghastly and then see some good feely thing on tv like a father demonstrating love to his child and i swell up with a big knot in my throat. It is even worst when im around an emotional person and then it feels like the volume is being turned up on my emotions. Like others emotions amplify mines. Its amazing what simple loving concepts make me tear up. Im a guy too so sometimes i have to work really hard to maintain the illusion of manliness.